QUOTE (Darren @ May 28 2009, 11:16 PM)
Would such a system work here? Perhaps tie it in with refuse collecting days with the sweepers following along behind?
I doubt it.
There would be howls of protest that no-one "was told", there were no "leaflets" left the week before, it "wasn't in the papers" etc.
Look at all the complaints over our rubbish collections, especially when the company made it clear they would collect one day later after a bank holiday - remember the whinging on here when people got caught out by that and thought it was everyone else's fault.
As for parking and being towed away, motorists around Newbury don't see road signs or notices and certainly won't abide by motoring laws like temporary parking restrictions. The moment a car gets towed away for being parked where the sign said don't, the legal eagles will be out there looking for illegal signage where the sign or font was the wrong size by a millimetre or two. Either that or it will all be the councils fault for invoking some cash cow.
Nice idea but not for Newbury!